Nicole Yi Messier is an engineer, designer, eTextile practitioner, and artist who loves to build things that are fun & helpful.

She makes products, tools, and art across physical and digital platforms that focus on education, interaction, and playfulness. Her process includes research, observation, rapid prototyping, collaboration, and user testing methodologies. Nicole has worked with museums, nonprofits, startups, educators, artist, government agencies, and large companies. Within these fields, her focus has been developing new and innovative technologies and experiences. She has built large scale interactive museum experiences, built nano robots, and launched an eTextile product line called blink blink.

Nicole is also adjunct faculty at Parsons School of Design where she teaches creative coding and design entrepreneurship. She has taught coding, prototyping, and user centered design workshops to a variety of audiences including NASA Space Apps Challenge and Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction conference.